Today I needed to get the 5 latest status updates from a Facebook page. A client had asked me if I could create a widget for wordpress that would show the latest blog posts, tweets and facebook updates in one widget.

While the latest blog posts and tweets were easy enough to set up, I had a few kinks figuring out how to get the data from Facebook, without requiring a session key (i.e. without logging in to Facebook).

This took a while to dig out, and I tried around 5 different approaches before figuring out that it was pretty simple actually. The Facebook API documentation is just terrible…

include('facebook-platform/php/facebook.php');

class fbPageStatus
{
 public static function getStatusUpdates($fbkey, $fbsecret, $page_id)
 {
 $fb = new Facebook($fbkey, $fbsecret);
 $fql        = "SELECT message, updated_time FROM stream WHERE source_id = '" . $page_id . "'";
 $fbupdates    = $fb -> api_client -> fql_query($fql);
 return $fbupdates;
 }
}
// Usage:
var_dump(fbPageStatus::getStatusUpdates('7bc1ef16567735546bef620c32a23s76', 'ab3dfc4b7d8591f7ef2197ba754f16d1', '17975046895'));

Some simple FQL returns the result.

To get the number of fans, you would do:

$fql         = "SELECT fan_count FROM page WHERE page_id = '" . $page_id . "'";
 $fans         = $fb -> api_client -> fql_query($fql);

Hope someone will find this usefull.

EDIT: All keys are fake, obviously. Replace with your own.

Die meisten können wohl mit den Abkürzungen nicht viel anfangen, Entwickler sollten sich damit auskennen, jedenfalls die jenigen, die mit UML verwenden.

BPMN = Business Process Moddeling Notation
ERM = Empirical Research Methods
POEM = Process Oriented Enterprise Moddeling

Wie und wo man was anwendet, ist in unzähligen Büchern beschrieben und der eine oder andere verwendet es schon. Gut wäre so etwas wie ein Posten, das man sich mal schnell ansehen kann, wenn man was von den Sachen benötigt. Solche Posten kann man kaufen oder bei ITPoster.net kostenlos herunterladen. Alle Poster sind unter der CC Lizenz freigegeben.

Microsoft bietet mit Office Live einen neuen Service an, der sich zur Zeit noch im Beta Stadium befindet. Gedacht ist dieser Service für kleine Firmen, Vereine, Gruppen etc. aber weniger für Privatpersonen. Für Privatpersonen gibt es ja auch WindowsLive, mit ähnlichem Funktionsumfang.

Mit dem Paket,  bestehend aus dem Online Speicherplatz von 5 GB und dem Webhosting, kann man sehr einfach seine Webseiten Online erstellen und bearbeiten. Dateien können dann direkt eingebunden werden. Der Funktionsumfang des Webseiteneditors ist begrenzt aber immer noch ausreichend genug um eine umfangreiche Firmen Webseite zu erstellen.

Der Editor erinnert stark an Word und stellt sicher, das auch ungeübte damit zurecht kommen. Der ganze Service ist kostenlos. Man kann sogar eine oder mehrere Domains kaufen (11,95 €) und diese sofort einbinden. Für Webentwickler und Firmenbetreuer öffnet sich dadurch ein zusätzlicher Markt.

Wir haben für einen kleinen Kunden ein OfficeLive System komplett eingerichtet. Gepflegt wir die Webseite vom Kunden selbst, nur bei der Einrichtung und dem grundsätzlichen Design haben wir geholfen.

Beste TEDliefhebber,

Hartelijk dank voor jouw aanmelding voor de live simulcast van TEDxAmsterdam op 20 november in Groningen. Mooi dat je er bij bent! We zijn blij met de enthousiaste reacties die we mogen ontvangen.

De locatie, De Puddingfabriek in Groningen sluit perfect aan bij de doelstellingen van TED en TEDxAmsterdam. Bovendien biedt De Puddingfabriek ook de creatieve sfeer die zo sprekend is voor TED.

Wij nemen persoonlijk contact op met iedereen die heeft aangegeven een actieve bijdrage te willen leveren tussen de TEDxAmsterdamTalks in. Tot ons genoegen kunnen we al een deel van onze line-up bekend maken!

Dagvoorzitters Ritzo en Ronald van “De Ondernemers” zien toe op dat het “Food for Thought” ons zal smaken. Zij voorzien ons gedurende de hele dag van gedachtenspinsels en leiden de discussies die vanuit de TEDtalks ontstaan in prettige banen en leuke bochten.

DJVinylatino draait Soulshakers ter inspiratie en ontspanning tijdens de TEDtalks. De hele dag door jazzy latin funky moods, breaks n beatz, van Joe Loco tot Horny Martian Breaks.

Studio Frank en Lisa – Format GAVA en Silent disco
Format GAVA biedt de mogelijkheid aan jonge kunstenaars een nieuwe voorstelling te maken op basis van audiovisueel erfgoedmateriaal. Na twee pilots in 2006 en 2007, werd in 2008 besloten Format GAVA uit te bouwen tot een co-productie van Stichting GAVA, Studio Frank & Lisa en Noorderzon, om op deze manier het project een flinke impuls te geven. Format GAVA is inmiddels een begrip geworden op Noorderzon. Op TEDx zal een selectie draaien met van afgelopen jaren FormatGAVA 2006 – 2009.

Nodig je eigen netwerk uit voor dit bijzondere evenement! Wij kijken uit naar een inspirerende dag!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Rutger van Zuidam,
Fundament All Media

Annelies Meijer,
Gemeente Groningen, Economic Talent Board

Programma en meer informatie:
http://blog.fundament.nl/2009/11/04/groningen-goes-tedxamsterdam-20-november/

Adresgegevens locatie:
De Puddingfabriek
Viaductstraat 3a
9725 BG Groningen

Today the first preview release of the upcoming 0.7 series of pulse – the web application framework has been released.
This preview release includes all enhancements of the previous maintenance releases of the 0.6 beta series. The major change is the restructuring of the authentication process into a separate part of the execution chain.
The 0.7 series will be the first public production grade release of pulse adding many new features to the framework.

Here come my contribution to the gadgets competition in the “Open gadgets 2009″ category. The gadget works with EPiServer XForm to get live results on a poll or question from the site. Meaning as people vote or answer your question on the site you can follow the result live on the dashboard. You can connect the gadget to any XForm and onthe XForm you can use any any field you wish to follow live. You also have the ability to turn off the live update if there is any performance issue or so. (I have tried to keep it pretty optimized so this will hopefully never be a problem). To configure the gadget you just use the edit menu on the gadget (The little arrow in the upper right corner of the gadget) and set its properties. This means you can have many of this gadgettype with different data working at the same time on the dashboard. It also only updates if there is any change in the data and never updates if the gadget is not visible (it is hidden on another tab or such).

Since I am very early with this gadget I give the possibility for others to see my code use parts of it to help with their development of the gadget. So I hope I get some competition credits for being early!! =)

Functionality

I will try to explain the functionality a little more in detail by explaining on how configure your own poll. Once the gadget is installed (see the installation instructions further down) you are now able to make your own polls.

First set up a new page (use the XForm page template or the demo) in the XForm properties create a new XForm and in this make sure you have a heading (and have “heading” as class since I currently search for this to be able to display heading in the gadget). Create a field like a radio or check boxes or what you like and note down what name you give it. Now save everything and view it in view mode. Should look something like this:

After this you go to the dashboard and add a new poll gadget. Edit the gadget and fill in the information. The pageId of your new page, the property name for the form (probably XForm if you use public templates) and the field name that you noted down earlier. Currently there is only 1 chart type (the pie chart).

Now save your settings and you should have a gadget with no data. So go to the page in view mode and do a few vote to get some data. And watch the magic.

Business Value

I think the business value of this gadget is pretty high. I can see a lot of scenarios where you would like some fast responses to questions be it on an external site or an intranet. This gives the possibility to follow these live and take actions when needed. It also looks pretty cool on the dashboard which might help partners sell EPiServer to customers that like flashy things =)

Technical Overview

The Poll gadget uses Google chart API as a graphical representation and renders the result as an image. This is the only external reference that is used in this gadget. The data comes as said from the XForms in EPiServer that uses data store as storage in EPiServer 6. The new data store should make these kinds of requests fast. The settings for the gadget is also stored in the new data store. The gadget also uses Linq to XML to get hold of the questions from the form XML. The ajaxrequest that is sent between the client and server to update the chart only send a small id to the server and gets json object with a link back.

Installation Instructions

1. Follow the CTP2 installation instructions to install CTP2 CTP2 install instructions. Also install Globalized public template content.
2. Open the poll zip file and extract the content of in into the public templates folder for your CTP2 site.
3. Convert the project file to MVC project. Info on how to do this you can find here: How to create a gadget – By Ted Nyberg Also do the step with web.config (adding the public template assembly).
4. Open the project in Visual Studio and include the 4 folders Content, Controllers, Models and Views to the project by right clicking and choose “Include in Project” on the folders.
5. Add reference to EPiServer.Shell, EPiServer.Data (found by browse to bin folder), system.web.mvc and system.runtime.serialization (found on the .NET tab).
6. Build the solution, go the the dashboard and you will see your poll gadget. (Even though it has no data yet, since you probably haven’t visited the demo page to use the Xform)

Feel free to ask any questions about the installation and I will try to help and update this. (Sorry for not beeing the ultimate installer guy and making some cool installer).

Download the Code here: Download

Mail van Alex Klok

Met ons voorgenomen huwelijk hebben mijn vriendinnetje en ik ons wat laten informeren. Hier en daar hebben we ook op wat websites gekeken en mail-adressen achtergelaten voor o.a. offertes. Via-via-via komt je adres dan schijnbaar makkelijk bij types als Alex Klok, die het een goed idee leek om ook zijn bedrijf wat te promoten. Vanuit hotmail stuurde hij het hiernaast weergegeven eerste mailbericht.

In mijn ogen waren er drie zaken niet netjes aan de gestuurde mail, deze was:

1. ongevraagde bedrijfspromotie en dus 100% spam;
2. verstuurd aan meerdere mensen waarbij al deze adressen in het To-veld geplaatst waren (en niet in de BCC);
3. verstuurd vanaf alexklok@hotmail.com.

Een zeer onprofessionele mail dus; ik stuurde Alex dan ook onderstaande reactie:

Ondanks zijn zeer onprofessionele manier van werken verbaasde hij me toch nog met zijn reactie, zie onderstaand.

Zoals je begrijpt heb ik geen woorden over voor deze reactie waarbij ik in mijn mail hem zelfs waarschuw en hem nog wat tips aan de hand doe hoe de beste man zijn mails professioneler kan versturen. Naar aanleiding van de teleurstellende reactie heb ik melding gemaakt bij de OPTA middels de speciaal hiervoor opegzette website https://www.spamklacht.nl/klacht-indienen/. Vanuit het oogpunt, wie niet horen wil, moet maar voelen.

De website van Alex is http://www. twotops .nl/ welke ik niet als link zal vermelden om te voorkomen dat er meer bezoekers naar zijn site komen. De redenen voor deze blog zijn:

1. dat ik erg teleurgesteld ben in de reactie van Alex;
2. dat ik om deze reden hoop dat mensen de beste man niet op hun trouwerij uitnodigen.

Onderstaand de volledige mail, zodat mensen die op Alex zijn mail googlen bij deze post uitkomen en zich hoop ik bedenken, mensen die zo communiceren zou ik niet op mijn trouwerij willen hebben. Overigens snap ik nu wel waarom Alex voor de spam mails kiest, zijn communicatieve vaardigheden zijn niet zijn sterkste kant!

Introduction

The modern life is very much dependent on communicating with each other. How can we communicate with each other? Various media, like – Sending Mail through Post Office, Sending Message through Messenger, Say Hello by Land Phone or Mobile etc. At the ancient time we communicate each other with Pigeon or Messenger. But in the modern life we like to take advantages of digital technology. Internet is such a digital technology of modern life.

Elaboration of this Internet is “International Networking”. It’s a big network where computers are attached with each other all over the world. We know that, computer can attach with each other and can talk with each other, can share file with each other, can share music, can share video with each other. So, all the computer of the world is inter connecting with each other and makes a big network that virtually act as a big computer for a world. We don’t need to know how they communicate with each other. We just need to know how we can reach other computer that is outside of your computer or outside of your country. So, we can reach our friend’s computer easily to communicate with her.

Cyber café is such a place where you can use computer by paying money. Here all computers are pre-connected with internet. So, you don’t need to connect them. You need not to know how they connected, how a computer can open etc. You just need to know how you can use internet. You need to know a very basic knowledge about keyboard, mouse & monitor. Are you know, how a light is lighten by passing electricity? You just need to know where the switch to on that light is. How this switch is operated? And use this light by switch on. Internet is easy like switch on a light of your room.
Now the things you need to know for switching internet communication, is – Browser, Website, Email Address, Checking & Sending Mail, Searching or Surfing Internet for Information etc.

So, what about operating procedure of a computer? Nothing, we need not to know! Well, let me explain. When we were 2 years old, are we know about all the stuff of our room? No, not at all. But, we recognized the toy by which we can play.

About Browser & About Form

Now the most important part to use internet is browser. I like to compare browser as our “Table”. Where we can put our book for reading. It’s such a place where we can put our writing pad on it and write. So, it’s a workstation where we do our regular duties, isn’t it?

Now, what is the category of the table? Is it furniture? Yes, its furniture. In computer we can categorize “Browser” as program. If we think a computer like our room, then browser is a type of furniture like table.

Now, we already hear a word “website”. What does a website means? Website is such a place where certain information is written and can access from anywhere of the world through internet. Now, what types of information are written to the website? It’s may be the details of a product, about a place, any instruction etc. Well, let’s consider an example. Someone wants to know about “Sundarban”. Someone wants to know how he can reach to “Sundarban”. Now, if we can written all the information about “Sundarban” and put it a such open place from where anyone can access to that place and can read about “Sundarban” then she easily get all the answer about “Sundarban” from that place. That such place we call “website”. Now, what happen, if we can publish a book on “Sundarban”? Write all the information about “Sundarban” into that book. And keep that book on our table and read! Exactly, we compare our website as like as book. Where information is stored and people can read it by putting it on the table. It makes some sense about the relationship between browser and website, isn’t it?

Now, what about form? Form is nothing but a predefined question paper that need to collection information for a certain purpose. If you go to admit a school your parent need to fill up a form about you and your family. That form contains your name, your father’s name, mother’s name etc. etc. In that form we need to write but here at web form we need to type information by keyboard. After writing that form we need to submit it to school authority by handing over the filled up form. Here we need to submit it through a button that we call “Submit Button”. Its simple, we just need to know about the parts of the form. The main parts of a web form are – Text Box, Text Area, Select Box Multiple & Single, and Option Box Multiple & Single. No need to worry about form in this time. You will be familiar with web form while use net regularly.

About Mail Server & Storage Technique

As we already know that we have a common place where we preserve information for public access that is called server. We can store our information as webpage into server. Also we can store mail into that server.
Well, let’s consider a scenario. One of your friends wants to send a message through courier service. He will write a letter then go to courier service to post it. The courier service authority will send that letter to your friend’s city branch of that courier service. Then the postman will search you to give you that letter. If you don’t at home at that time the postman will drop it to your home. When you come to your home you will get that letter of your friend. Here server is act like as your home. All the mail is stored into server until you read it.

About User ID & Password

I’m trying to make you understood with some real life example. It will help the issue to understand easily. Now think you admitted into a new school and meet with your new friend. There you found that there has another friend who has the same name of you. Suppose your name “Mithila” now what other identified you? Its simple, they make a new name of you like “New Mithila” or something else. And it’s your identity at your school. In server the unique name is called “User ID”.

Now what is password? It simple, it’s a secret phrases that only known by you! Now why you need password? Basically computers don’t know you. It’s a machine. So if your friend claims that her name is “Mithila” then what happen? Cause you and your friend Mithila are using same computer. So you need a secret word or code to claim your uniqueness, isn’t it? That’s password need.

Mail Header / Parts of Mail Message

Mail header is the information about mail. You all know about traditional letter. In that letter you will find from whom you receive that letter and when you received that letter. This is called the information about letter. As like as every email have this information. We called those information as “Mail Header”.

Now what about a gift? Suppose your elder brother send a nice gift like a “Barbie Doll” to you. What you think, isn’t it nice? Your elder brother may send that gift and write a letter to you. Now what is the scenario? You getting letter with a gift. Here in electronics system we have same approach. Suppose we need to send a song with a letter. What can we do? We just need to attach that song with that email. And that is called “Attachment”. It’s also a part of email.

Now you have two another term of email header, they are – CC & BCC. CC means Carbon Copy. You all know about carbon. When we need a document more then one copy for preserving purpose or another purpose we use this carbon to copy it. In the modern technology we can photocopy that document as much as we need. So, what about CC? When you need to send your same mail to many of your friend then you need to use this option. Suppose you want to send “Eid Greetings” to your entire friends. What you will do? You will type your message and send to a friend. For another friend you need to type again and send it to that friend. May be you can copy the message text for sending the same message. But with CC option you can send the same mail to as many as you can. Just type the friends email address separated with comma and send it. It simple! Now what about BCC? You don’t need to use this BCC option now. Its elaboration is Broadcasting Carbon Copy. Its same as CC but with little functioning difference. You can use it as CC. You will learn it by using I think.

About Yahoo Profile, Yahoo Mail Account & Address Book

Yahoo profile is a profile that keeping by Yahoo. Information about you is kept by Yahoo called Yahoo Profile. In the profile it contain your name, from where you from, from where you surfing or accessing the site etc.

Yahoo Mail Account is a space where your mail stored. If someone sent you mail the mail will stored into that area until you read it. You can also store it permanently in to this account. It’s also an identification to reach you or to send you email.

Address Book is the register of email address. In this book you can save your friends email address for future use.

About Search Engine

Search engine is a special site where you can find the address of your desire word. Suppose you want to know about “123 Sisimpur”, but you don’t know where you can get information. So, first of all you need to search the address related on “123 Sisimpur” then you can go to that website to get the information about “123 Sisimpur”. From which you get the address by searching them we called it search engine. Those search engines is maintain the name of all other website. The search engine will provide the list of website that is related with your keyword. You need to put your keyword into specific text box to search. After getting the list you can easily find out your desired website.

Conclusion

Internet is easy to use & very cheap communication facilities with each other. But its global. The main fact of internet defend our real life is, if we have a permanent address we can use it to get any letter from our friend. But when we are on travel, then how can we get those letters instantly? But with email address we can get mail from anywhere anytime.

Disclaimer:

This article is written for a primary concept on internet who have no idea about internet. Basically I’m trying to establish a relationship between our real lives with internet. Internet is a vast subject. It’s not possible to give a greater knowledge at the very first time.

by-

| Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan
| Web Developer, Square InformatiX Ltd.

Old news from 9/15, but I want to weigh in.

Yes, it’s true, Microsoft has a free CDN for their JS framework.  This is great news for people who use Microsoft AjaxLibrary (… version 4.0 Preview 5!). 

Here is the usage:

<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/beta
/0909/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
.csharpcode .rem { color: #008000; }
.csharpcode .kwrd { color: #0000ff; }
.csharpcode .str { color: #006080; }
.csharpcode .op { color: #0000c0; }
.csharpcode .preproc { color: #cc6633; }
.csharpcode .asp { background-color: #ffff00; }
.csharpcode .html { color: #800000; }
.csharpcode .attr { color: #ff0000; }
.csharpcode .alt
{
background-color: #f4f4f4;
width: 100%;
margin: 0em;
}
.csharpcode .lnum { color: #606060; }

Notice it goes to ajax.microsoft.com. This could potentially already be cached by the user’s browser.  The beauty of a CDN is you don’t have to worry about the location of the server serving the JS file.  It’s a network of servers that are geographically dispersed at key Internet network points.  This minimizes the amount of network hops to your user and relieves the bandwidth on your server.  Plus it frees up another request for the user to download more content off your server (older browser have max 2 connections to a FQDN).  This speeds up the “perceived” rendering of the web page.

But who uses MS Ajax?

Google Ajax Libraries API, Google’s CDN, contains all major JS frameworks except for MS Ajax.  This begs the question the of MS Ajax penetration in the market.

Earlier this year a survey was conducted with over 1200 self professed web professionals and posted on Ajaxian regarding the state of the web in 2008.  One of the questions surveyed was which JS frameworks they use, and MS Ajax was nowhere in site and jQuery dominating.

I admit when MS Ajax first came out, I played around with it and used it for some of my sites.  I even created my own extender that is used in SharePoint WebParts.  But since I moved to jQuery almost 2 years ago, I have not looked back.   So in the end, it’s too little too late for me.

Resources

• MS Ajax CDN

Spam-mails zijn nog steeds een grote irritatiefactor voor contactformulieren op websites. Er zijn diverse mogelijkheden, zoals captcha’s en andere ingewikkelde en ongebruiksvriendelijke oplossingen. Ook worden spam-bots steeds slimmer en helpt het in de HTML renamen van de input velden ook niet meer.

Aangezien vele spam-bots niet werken als een browser, maar gewoon de html parsen zijn visuele wijzigingen goed bruikbaar om spam tegen te gaan. Zo is het slim om in de html een extra text-area toe te voegen welke met inline css op onzichtbaar gezet wordt, style=”visibility: hidden;”. In de code voor het verwerken van het contactformulier kan dan gecontroleerd worden of het textarea een waarde heeft. Wanneer dit het geval is, is er sprake van een bot en kun je deze eventueel blacklisten.

HTML fix tegen spam-mails

Bovenstaande methode werkte 3 jaren geleden al, maar werkt nog steeds erg goed en is binnen 10 minuten te implementeren. Vergeet niet de code aan te passen, dat er gecontroleerd wordt op het ontbreken van een waarde van mail_content.

It has been a while since I last posted here. Mostly because of school. Anyway, I guess you don’t wan’t to read excuses You wan’t to read blogposts, ain’t it? In this blogpost I’ll talk about school. In the next one I’ll talk about the banning of headscrafs (Am I right on the translation?, anyway, what Muslim women put on their head to prevent their hair being seen by men) at two schools in Antwerp (Koninklijk Atheneum Antwerpen and Koninklijk Atheneum Hoboken).

On 1 september the new schoolyear started for me. I’m in a class with 18 students (including me), of which one girl (poor girl , a full year with 17 boys, must be horrible ). They all seem quite nice to me. Our SystemManagement teacher seems quite funny, as seems our Maths teacher. The Software and Development teacher teaches extremely slow. He used 30 minutes for explaining/making a Hello World in ASP.NET..

That’s it for now. I will try to post regulary (about school) from now on.

Listening to 21 Guns from Green Day — Great song

A few days after my first part on flash on ubuntu, I  made a greasemonkey script, that works on youtube, and (via a httprequest to a php page) downloads the video and converts it to a ogg theora. Then the embed tag is replaced by a html 5 video tag.

Script (JS):

// ==UserScript==
// @name Youtube OGGER
// @namespace userscripts.org
// @description Converts youtube's FLV files to OGG Theora files
// @version 0.1
// @include http://youtube.com/watch?*
// @include http://www.youtube.com/watch?*
// @include http://*.youtube.com/watch?*
// ==/UserScript==
var video_id = null;
var video_hash = null;
var video_player = document.getElementById('movie_player');
if (video_player) {var flash_variables=video_player.attributes.getNamedItem('flashvars');
if (flash_variables) {var flash_values=flash_variables.value; }
}
document.getElementById('watch-player-div').innerHTML='Even geduld...';
GM_xmlhttpRequest({
method: "GET",
url: "http://localhost/youtubeoggs/youtubeogger.php?fv="+flash_values+"&url="+location.href,
headers: {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0", // Recommend using navigator.userAgent when possible
},
onload: function(response) {
if (response.status == 200) {
var div_embed=document.getElementById('watch-player-div');
if (div_embed) {
div_embed.innerHTML='your browser does not support the video tag';
}
}
}
});


Script (PHP) :

$fv=$_GET['fv'];
$url=$_GET['url'];
$urlmap=$_GET['fmt_url_map'];
preg_match("/v\=([A-Za-z0-9]+)/",$url,$videoIDarr);
$videoID=$videoIDarr[1];
if (!file_exists("/var/www/youtubeoggs/ogg/y-".$videoID.".ogg")) {
$urlMapArr=explode("http",$urlmap);
$stanQual="http".$urlMapArr[count($urlMapArr)-1];
exec("wget -O flv/y-".$videoID.".flv \"".$stanQual."\"");
exec("ffmpeg -i flv/y-".$videoID.".flv -vcodec libtheora -sameq -acodec libvorbis -ac 2 -sameq ogg/y-".$videoID.".ogg");
}
echo "http://localhost/youtubeoggs/ogg/y-".$videoID.".ogg";


However, you need ffmpeg for it. Any room for improvement? Any idea’s on how to make it faster? (it is quite slow)

In meanwhile the sites system is finished (except for some integration things, they will happen when the other systems are finished too). And after this blogpost I will start the pm system. I don’t expect that one to be a hard one either. A PM-controller, with index of pm’s, read a pm, write one, delete one and report one. I personally expect it to be finished before the end of the week. And then I might start at the tutorials system. That one will take a while I think, but that will give the others time to make their systems, and after that, integration can begin.

In meanwhile I’m also planning a new version of my personal site (the 14th in almost 6 years) and I have ideas for some others.

Today and yesterday I’ve put my first steps in the Kohana PHP framework. I didn’t do quite much yet, but you’ve got to start with something, ain’t it? What I’ve done so far :

• Basic M-V-C
• Form helper
• Database lib
• Join query (I can only make them for a month in normal sql)
• Form helper
• Validation class

Coming up :

• translations
• some stuff with virtual subdomains (eg. matter.language.networkdomain.tld)
• combining physical and real folders? (eg. : admin/class/method)
• some more of the stuff I already did
• something I forgot

After that the sites+translations system of the network will be finished. Then I will experiment with Kohana 3.0 RC’s, and I might start the next systems.

In meanwhile, T. is working on the Forumsystem and M. is working on the Userssystem. (They both have very little experience in OOP, none of us has experience in kohana).

As a programmer, I sometimes think “Hell, I could write this stuff exactly how I need it, why am I using this shit?”. Well, I’ve tried it sometimes.. I’ve tried to make a CMS for about 3 times, I tried to make a blog one time.  Now, I’m working on wordpress.com. Hell, Why am I doing this. WordPress is quite good, but WordPress.com just sucks. I really should write my own software, but at the moment I haven’t got the time.

Fellow programmers, do you easily think “I can write this way better”, and if so do you do it too, and if so do you maintain it also, and do you release it?

When starting a new project, it’s important to consider which framework(s) to use, if any.  Frameworks can speed up development, but they may be feature-bloated or not so easy to learn. Also, it’s important to think about in which languages you will use frameworks. For the network (soon more on that topic) we first chose BluePrint for CSS, MooTools for JS and CodeIgniter for PHP. After some research, we discovered that for our needs MooTools wasn’t the correct framework, since we won’t do much more then ajax, DOM manipulation and tabs. We’re in the process of choosing a new one, but there is much chance we’ll go for jQuery. We also discovered that CodeIgniter was quite loose on MVC and OOP, and still PHP4-compatible (and thus not using PHP5 features optimally). Again, we’re in the process of choosing a new one, but there is much chance that we’ll choose Kohana.

What I want to say is that it’s very important to inform yourself about all the possibilities and think about what you need for your project.

beberapa tahun (sejak tahun 2005 akhir / 2006 awal) ini saya melakukan pekerjaan yang sangat saya suka, yaitu membangun web. banyak sekali tulisan yang saya baca, banyak sekali website yang saya hampiri, dan banyak juga artikel yang saya simpan. ada beberapa yang saya anggap ga guna, sampe ada juga yang saking pentingnya, saya lupa nyimpen dimana.. hehehehe.

meskipun banyak sekali yang pantas untuk ditampilkan, ini beberapa referensi/inspirasi yang saya baca dan lihat, silahkan nikmati list dibawah (tidak terurut yah) :

Selamat Menikmati.

Very efficient Loader Coding Tutorial

the code using here is very clean , simple and error less . you can load external swf file and call function in that swf file

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step 1 : Create Loader.fla and LoaderClass.as

open Loader.fla go to properties type “LoaderClass” class : filed under PUBLISH tab

step 2 : Make a preloader movie

click on rectangle tool or (R)

then draw a reactangle width : 300px & height :10px , color :#63F262

after that right click on the rectangle and convert to symbol, when convert to symbol window popup type the (1)Name : mc , (2)Type : Movie Clip , (3)Registeration : Left-center

then name the MoviClip “mc” on properties tab

again right click on the rectangle and convert to symbol, when convert to symbol window popup type the (1)Name : preloader_mc , (2)Type : Movie Clip , (3)Registeration : center , (4)tick Export for ActionScript under Linkage tab

double click on the preloader_mc and create a dynamic text field and name “percent_txt”

then click on Character Embedding and in the include these characters: type “0123456789%”

it will look like this

step 3: Make Preloader Animation

double click on the preloader_mc and insert a frame at 100

then create a motion tween on “mc” rectangle

insert a scale KeyFrame at 100th frame

set width = 1 at first Frame

come to root of the Scene delete the preloader_mc Movie Clip

and save your file

step 4: Write Preloader Class

open LoaderClass.as

package {

	//import needed classes

	import flash.display.*;
	import flash.events.*;
	import flash.filters.*;
	import flash.geom.*;
	import flash.net.*;
	import flash.system.*;

	dynamic public class LoaderClass extends MovieClip // main class
	{

		//declare private variables

		private var PRELOADER:preloader_mc= new preloader_mc();
		private var URL_:URLRequest;
		private var OBJLoader:Loader;
		private var isLoaded:Boolean;
		private var TOTAL_:Number;
		private var LOADED_:Number;
		private var isLoadedInited:Boolean;

		public function LoaderClass() {//main function
			stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
			stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
			init();
		}

		public function init():void {
			PRELOADER.x = stage.stageWidth / 2;
			PRELOADER.y = stage.stageHeight / 2;
			addChild(PRELOADER);
			LoadContent(null);
			stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE,onResize);
		}

		public function LoadContent(URLReq:URLRequest) {
			if (URLReq == null) {
				URL_ = new URLRequest("swfContent.swf");
			} else {
				URL_ = URLReq;
			}
			OBJLoader = new Loader();
			OBJLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaded);
			OBJLoader.load(URL_);
			addChild(OBJLoader);
			addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoading);
		}
		public function loaded(param1:Event):void {
			isLoaded = true;
			return;
		}
		public function onLoading(e:Event) {
			TOTAL_ = OBJLoader.contentLoaderInfo.bytesTotal;
			LOADED_ = OBJLoader.contentLoaderInfo.bytesLoaded;
			var percent:Number = int(LOADED_ / TOTAL_ * 100);
			PRELOADER.gotoAndStop(percent);
			PRELOADER.percent_txt.text = percent + "%";
			if (! isLoadedInited && isLoaded) {
				isLoadedInited = true;
				var LoaderData:* = OBJLoader.content;
				LoaderData["loadData"](this);
			}
			if (TOTAL_ / LOADED_ == 1) {
				removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,onLoading);
				removeChild(PRELOADER);
				stage.removeEventListener(Event.RESIZE,onResize);
				trace("content Loaded");
			}

			return;
		}

		public function onResize(e:Event) {

			PRELOADER.x = stage.stageWidth / 2;
			PRELOADER.y = stage.stageHeight / 2;

		}

	}

}

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